ITHACA, N.Y., May 12 (UPI) -- Fewer than 4 percent of U.S. firefighters are women, despite almost half of female firefighter candidates passing physical ability tests, a study says.
Co-author Francine Moccio, director of Cornell University's Institute for Women and Work looked at the percentage of women in comparable jobs requiring strength and stamina or involving dirty or dangerous work such as drywall installers, loggers and welders and found women represented 17 percent of these workers.